Elisa Ho is a Taiwanese artist and writer currently based in Chicago. Her practice finds the nuances between meaning and reality, utilizing writings, artists’ books, and textiles to explore and to question the existing narrative of things.

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An Interlooping Account of Language and Meaning:   Star Anise and Xiaoshan Lace

Adilah is a fiber artist and fashion designer born and raised in Chicago. Her practice investigates heritage, memory, and obscured narratives through material repetition. Drawing on a decade of professional experience and seven years in fashion education, she utilizes layered textiles and intricate details to explore the tension between what is revealed and what remains hidden or remembered.

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COILED LINES: Rwandan Basketry, Memory, and the Agaseke

Juliana is a Chicago based artist originally from Pennsylvania, her work explores what it means to continue to live after experiencing sexual violence within the homescape. Her work questions and considers violence in places and people we do not expect. All of this to validate many types of experiences, and her own. Through weaving, writing, and embroidery her work is not only a catalyst for self-healing but an invitation to care to consider violence.

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Pending Pathways: Journey to Exploring Museum and Collection Specialties

 Symbolizing Identity Hmong Embroidery

Micah Shaffer is a Chicago-based artist, designer and researcher whose work is rooted in more-than-human ways of thinking and making. They create (writing, woven structures, woodwork, video) with the intention of making ecological networks and entanglements visible and tangible in order to change how we care for and understand our environment. Within the realm of textile research, they explore how ceremonial objects from Central Asia and the Iberian Peninsula communicate histories of everyday resistance and social belonging.  

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A Cap, a Kippah, and the Archive: Bukharian Jewish Textile Memory

Mhairi Wardrop (she/her) was born in Evanston, Illinois and grew up around Chicago. Mhairi is an art student at SAIC mainly focusing on fiber art and disability advocacy. In her spare time she enjoys knitting, tending to her plants, weightlifting and going on walks. She looks forward to her last semester at SAIC in Fall 2026 and will continue to find whimsy in the everyday.

instagram @mhairimakesart

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Finding Value in the Everyday: Crochet Ducks, Kitsch, and Synthetic Yarn

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